A event held at The Cube on Friday 6th June. The event starts at 20:00.
DER SCHWEIGENDE STERN/ THE SILENT STAR
Director: Kurt Maetzig, 1959, GDR, POL, 90 min, German with English subtitles, Cert. 18 tba
Fri 6 June // 20:00
Tickets: £6
Remember Tomorrow is excited to bring this underrated gem to the big screen.
This newly restored and subtitled version has been made possible by the DEFA Film Library.
In the distant future of 1970, a cylinder containing a message from Venus has been discovered buried in the Gobi Desert. When attempts to contact that planet are met with silence, an international expedition of eight scientists is dispatched to find out more....
Their vessel for the journey is the eye-catchingly silvery ‘Cosmokrator’ and just as striking are the mixed gender, pan-ethnic crew; a Chinese linguist, a Japanese (female) doctor, an African communications officer, and to note, years before Star Trek.
A glossy production, filmed in Agfacolor and Total Vision (the GDR equivalent of Cinemascope), The Cosmokrator, and the alien landscape it touches down on, all melted cities and crystalline forests, are a triumph of production design.
Stanislaw Lem’s novel The Astronauts provide the basis for this sumptuously melodramatic, Polish-East German space adventure.
“The first influential post-war space opera from Eastern Europe."
— Aurum Film
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Director: Kurt Maetzig, 1959, GDR, POL, 90 min, German with English subtitles, Cert. 18 tba
Fri 6 June // 20:00
Tickets: £6
Remember Tomorrow is excited to bring this underrated gem to the big screen.
This newly restored and subtitled version has been made possible by the DEFA Film Library.
In the distant future of 1970, a cylinder containing a message from Venus has been discovered buried in the Gobi Desert. When attempts to contact that planet are met with silence, an international expedition of eight scientists is dispatched to find out more....
Their vessel for the journey is the eye-catchingly silvery ‘Cosmokrator’ and just as striking are the mixed gender, pan-ethnic crew; a Chinese linguist, a Japanese (female) doctor, an African communications officer, and to note, years before Star Trek.
A glossy production, filmed in Agfacolor and Total Vision (the GDR equivalent of Cinemascope), The Cosmokrator, and the alien landscape it touches down on, all melted cities and crystalline forests, are a triumph of production design.
Stanislaw Lem’s novel The Astronauts provide the basis for this sumptuously melodramatic, Polish-East German space adventure.
“The first influential post-war space opera from Eastern Europe."
— Aurum Film
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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